My three takeaways:
1. History taking is important. 2. Your assessment helps to find the primary subluxation complex. 3. Indicators are used to track progress and resolution of the compensatory patterns.

It was difficult to carve out the time to sit down and study. But the information and understanding it provided could be used the very next day in practice.

In my practice I mainly see neonates and infants. The fruit jar techniques have helped tremendously with my breastfeeding difficulties.

Yes, I would recommend this program to improve your paediatric assessment skills and increase the tools to find and adjust subluxation.

“After over 15 years in practice, I wanted to expand my knowledge in this area. So many lay people now are practicing craniosacral therapy and I strongly feel in our profession we really need to stand out and continue to expand on our knowledge and experience in this field especially if we want to work with children.

I loved learning and integrating how to look for structural versus meningeal patterns and I have new techniques for my tool box.

It was an intense ten months, but I feel that it helped me with my skills with working with infants, pediatrics and adults using cranial sacral therapy.

In practice, I usually had one to two seizure patients a year. When I first started the course I started to get one a month, now I am getting up to five new patients a month with seizures as a result of parents telling other parents what has been helping their kids

I would absolutely recommend this program. ! In chiropractic school we don’t get to learn too much about the skull other than basic landmarks. We don’t really cover movements of the bones, importance of fontanelles and when they should close, and in our school we did not learn cranial adjusting at all. This course provided all of that and more.

I have taken courses with Dr. Rosen through the ICPA and this class just provided so much more

Just a heartfelt thank you for the hard work you put into setting up the course. Also a huge thank you for your feedback during the Q&As, responses to all questions and CTA assignments, and Facebook.”

The SOT Pediatric Certificate Program has provided me with what I see as the missing link in the foundational Chiropractic course work. 1. Assessment of the neonate and child that is Chiropractic specific. 2. Neurological integration in the Chiropractic practice that is more than a pain and mechanical centered approach yet remaining in the scope of manual therapy. 3. How to confidently be able to communicate with my patients and multidisciplinary colleagues in an evidence-based way, opening up improved communication and understanding of why we do what we do as Chiropractors. Our South African medical and general community is especially in need of improved understanding of the potential benefits of Chiropractic.

I have learnt that where there is confidence and knowledge, there are also improved outcomes. Where there is intention there are improved outcomes. This course has truly transformed my approach to Chiropractic care and brought light to many of my unanswered questions.

I have recently been referred an 18-month-old with an abnormal crawling pattern, overactive sympathetic NS, poor emotional regulation, abnormal head shape and delayed milestone of walking. He does not want to bend the knees to go into a squat position. Even though he is weight bearing, his mother actually sent me a photo of the inverted swing test prior to our initial consultation where he had quite a severe right lateral occipital flexion and thoracic flexion pattern. I could now explain to the mom what she was actually testing and could interpret the test with confidence, all the while considering that he is over 9 months of age. After assessing him, treating him 4 times in two weeks and referring him back to the Occupational Therapist, he was able to crawl on all fours. Although there is not perfect coordination yet, and a lot of work is still needed, I feel that I could provide the best possible care using the SOT pediatric paradigm. I have never had such a severe case, and yet such great results with delayed and non-functional milestones. The best is yet to come.

I would absolutely recommend this course to any Chiropractor who has a special interest in Paediatrics. If you want your clinical outcomes improved, a proper systematic approach to diagnosis and to widen your scope of Chiropractic care – this course is for you!

Just a huge thank you, for the pioneering work that Dr. Martin and Dr. Nancy have done in our profession and for creating such a seamless course for Chiropractors to glean from – worldwide.

1. It is Important to make a good examination to find out if we are meeting an ascending or descending sacro occipital pattern. 2. Cranial bones have a specific motion that we can feel and differentiate during inhalation and exhalation. It is interesting to realize how we can improve our touch by practicing. 3. We can use different cranial techniques and touch to correct cranial bone movement. This can have a positive effect on the brain and neurological development of children.

It gave me new tools and helped me to be more self-confident facing clinical situations.

I had a 15 months patient. She had spent 3 days at hospital for pneumonia and otitis. She came to my office with a very acute condition. I work on temporal fibers, sphenobasilar, first rib, temporal. The day after, the mother called at the office to tell that her daughter feels much better.

I already recommended it to my colleague in Quebec. The classes are well organized, I learned new techniques. This class brings us a step forward.

Thank you. It was a pleasure to meet you at the Dr. Sharing even if I couldn’t be there live all the time. In a way.

This program is incredibly thorough. Lots of information pertinent to being a great pediatric chiropractor. Gaining and understanding of the material presented provides an incredible skill set that will improve your outcomes. However, staying up to date with the modules is important as the quantity of information is vast. Reviewing the modules to ensure you retain this info is also important. 2) Practice these techniques during the modules and after. This brings greater certainty and skill when applying them to your new and existing practice members. 3) While adjusting a paediatric population can sound and feel daunting at times, if you fall back on the principles taught in this program, it provides answers for the times where you don’t know where to begin. Review the print material regularly so this becomes more natural for you.

Throughout this program, I have found myself becoming more confident in my approach with adjusting kids. Having this improved confidence has also helped improve my certainty, which provides the parents of the children I am seeing with more confidence in me. This shared improved confidence translates into a better outcome as parents choose to continue with care, especially with those more difficult kids that need more care. From this course, I find myself enjoying seeing kids even more and have great joy throughout the day.

For me, the biggest take away from this program was not an application of one specific technique that had an amazing outcome, but the ability to know where to go next. My biggest problem prior to this program was I had lots of information in my head about how to care for the pediatric population, but now how to put it all together. Seeing how Dr. Rosen moves from assessment to correction gave me clarity on ‘where to go to next’. This wasn’t just with one patient, but with every patient, which improved the outcomes for them all and gave me more confidence at the same time.

I would highly recommend the program to anyone considering working with kids. SOT and Dr Rosen & Watson’s approach in applying SOT principles & techniques to kids ensures that you have the confidence and skills to manage all the common and uncommon conditions and syndromes experienced by kids, while also providing confidence to the parents. It delivers an incredible understanding of the anatomy & physiology of the developing baby and blends that with easy to follow and progressive assessment and corrective techniques that are safe, gentle and effective. What more could you want? If mastering chiropractic for the pediatric population is your vision, or if you are just looking for some extra help, this course delivers everything you will need and more.

Thank you both for your dedication to the chiropractic profession, especially the pediatric population & the chiropractors looking to master their skills. The breadth of knowledge you share within the program is incredible and something that I know I will use for the rest of my career. Without the dedication of you both, I fear that not only would some of these techniques get lost, resulting in our ability to care for kids to also suffer, but less chiropractors would also have less enjoyment in their day to day lives. Again, thank you both for your dedication to the profession and the health of kids globally. The profession continues to need masters like you both to help guide the knowledge and skills of less experienced chiropractors. This ensures the greatest possible health outcomes of our pediatric population. This program goes a long way to delivering this.”